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Description of problem: In Fedora 17 the graphical plymouth splash worked perfect. With Fedora 18 Beta LiveCD it works as well. But when I upgraded from F17 to F18 Beta, I now get only text plymouth boot progress, no graphics. 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2a42] (rev 07) $ cat /proc/cmdline BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.6.7-5.fc18.x86_64 root=/dev/mapper/vg-lv_root ro root=/dev/mapper/vg-lv_root ro rd.md=0 rd.dm=0 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYTABLE=us rd.luks.uuid=luks-b07a401c-96a9-47ab-8569-ac1809a1a1b9 rd.lvm.lv=vg/lv_root rd.lvm.lv=vg/lv_swap LANG=en_US.UTF-8 rhgb quiet plymouth:debug plymouth debug log attached. These messages look suspicious: [ply-renderer.c] ply_renderer_open_plugin:trying to open renderer plugin /usr/lib64/plymouth/renderers/x11.so [ply-utils.c] ply_open_module:Could not load module "/usr/lib64/plymouth/renderers/x11.so": /usr/lib 64/plymouth/renderers/x11.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory ... [main.c] find_distribution_default_splash:Distribution default splash is configured to be 'spinner' [main.c] show_default_splash:Trying distribution default splash [main.c] start_boot_splash:Loading boot splash theme '/usr/share/plymouth/themes/spinner/spinner.plymouth' [ply-key-file.c] ply_key_file_open_file:Failed to open key file /usr/share/plymouth/themes/spinner/spinner.plymouth: No such file or directory ... [main.c] start_boot_splash:Loading boot splash theme '/usr/share/plymouth/themes/default.plymouth' [ply-key-file.c] ply_key_file_open_file:Failed to open key file /usr/share/plymouth/themes/default.plymouth: No such file or directory Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): plymouth-0.8.8-3.fc18.x86_64 plymouth-core-libs-0.8.8-3.fc18.x86_64 plymouth-graphics-libs-0.8.8-3.fc18.x86_64 plymouth-plugin-label-0.8.8-3.fc18.x86_64 plymouth-plugin-two-step-0.8.8-3.fc18.x86_64 plymouth-scripts-0.8.8-3.fc18.x86_64 plymouth-system-theme-0.8.8-3.fc18.x86_64 plymouth-theme-charge-0.8.8-3.fc18.x86_64 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. upgrade from F17 to F18 2. boot
Created attachment 655938 [details] plymouth-debug.log
$ sudo dracut -f didn't help. $ sudo plymouth-set-default-theme -l charge details text (I don't know which one of those is set as default)
it looks like spinner is your current default, though not installed. does yum install plymouth-theme-spinner and then dracut -f fix it? I wonder how spinner became your default.
Ray, the approach form comment 3 fixed the issue for me. But I learned that spinner is not the theme Fedora uses by default (unless some change has been done in F18 very recently). So I removed it again, and used $ sudo plymouth-set-default-theme charge which finally reverted me back to the good old theme. However, I must not use this $ sudo plymouth-set-default-theme -r because it reverts it back to text theme again (even though I though charge was the default one). My upgrade log is in attachment 655735 [details]. Do you see any reason why would the plymouth theme change during upgrade? Please note I have used plymouth.splash=fedup as boot argument to fedup to work around bug 879295. Can it be the cause? I don't think this has been once-in-a-lifetime glitch, so more people will probably hit it once they start massively upgrading to F18.
I tried to reproduce with F17->F18 Final upgrade and everything worked correctly, I had "charge" theme afterwards. So either this was fixed in the meantime, or there was something in my previous configuration that caused it. Can't reproduce in a VM.
Here is a solution that restores the splash if you have nvidia drivers installed or ATI.. My resolution is 1280x1024x32. This might work for you, it might not. add the following to /etc/default/grub GRUB_GFXMODE=1280x1024x32 GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD=keep GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=1280x1024x32 then run the following command grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg Source: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=280259 Nvidia 250 GTS is my card.
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